Truman remembered years later. In an oral history recorded with the writer Merle Miller, Truman said: "I was afraid.

VOA: special.2011.07.28

And this winter, the show "Tales of Edgar Allan Poe" will turn this famous American writer's stories into puppet form.

VOA: special.2009.09.23

She faces strong competition from Helen Mirren, who plays the wife of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy in "The Last Station."

VOA: special.2010.03.01

Another black writer dismissed Ellison because Ellison demanded that writing skills must be learned before political ideas can be expressed.

VOA: special.2010.09.19

Or the writer could show how the subject may be understood better or in a different way than it has been.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

She became good friends with the American painters John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler and the writer Henry James.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

Opponents of the treaty included former President Cleveland, industrialist Andrew Carnegie, labor leader Samuel Gompers, writer Mark Twain,and others.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

The writer John Grisham gave many words of advice to students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

This week we tell about Helen Keller. She was blind and deaf but she became a famous writer and teacher.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

He seemed to be living the story about the writer who had sold his writing skill in order to make money.

VOA: special.2011.06.26

Another writer, James Cloyd Bowman, wrote an award-winning children's book called "Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time."

VOA: special.2009.11.28

He helped write about Raptorex Kriegsteini with Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago, the lead writer and researcher.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

He was a writer who used all his energy to make the world a better place for poor people.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Sports writer Paul Gallico wrote that Babe Ruth played ball in the same intense way that he lived his life.

VOA: special.2011.03.27